Tuesday, July 28, 2009

A Padfoot and Prongs Giveaway:The Time Traveler's Wifeby Audrey NiffenegerHey there every one. Hope your week is treating you well. Since we have been so busy lately with the t-shirt designs and businessy things, we thought it might be nice to reward our loyal readers with a give away!For one we will be accepting entries to win the book 'The Time Traveler's Wife' by Audrey Niffeneger and will be a drawing a name at random on Aug 4th at 10 am. This will give the winner just enough time to bust through the book before the movie premiers in theatres on August 14th!

This novel is a beautiful story about a man who is unable to control his ability to travel through time, and the love of his life that is unable to deny her love for her husband, despite his constant absense. The writing is beautiful and honest to life. Although the time travel could techinically be considered sci-fi or even fantasy, there is nothing fantastical about their love. It is deep and true and will leave you reaching for the kleenex box in no time. Their struggles are profound and heartfelt but their passion for each other would even put The Darcy's to shame. The Time Traveler's Wife is truly a unique read for any of you who are tired at looking at romanticiced romance, and are ready for a good honest love story.If you are interested in winning this wonderful hard cover book there are we have a small list of the potential ways you can earn entries into the contest.

1. Follow us. Simple enough. If you are already a follower then you will automatically recieve one entry. Just leave a comment letting us know you already follow.2. Leave a comment on any previous blog entry. Easy peasy.3. Follow us on Twitter. Once again if you already follow us that is an automatic entry. Leave a message @GoodBooksInc reminding us you follow.4. Write a brief paragraph about how you would use the ability to Time Travel if you had the chance. What would you see? What time period? Any one inparticular, an old flame perhaps? Nothing to long but make it creative! Good for 2 entries.5. Follow us on Good Books Inc. Favortie book quotes. Leave a comment with a favorite one of your quotes. Good for one entry.So lets recap. If you do all 5 things that is the possibility of 6 entries total. Pretty good chances don't you think? So what are you waiting for. Hop to it folks! And good luck to all!

57 comments:

I liked how honest the writing was. I am becoming less of a fan of the overly romanticised writing and Niff's writing reminded me alot of one of my favorite movies, Closer, where it is just a pretty real portrayal of what relationships are like. I hope the movie stays true to the bluntness of some fo the writing.

We're all sold out at work, so I'd love to win! spiffyish [at] hotmail.com.

1. I'm a follower!2. I left a comment at this entry: http://goodbooksinc.blogspot.com/2009/07/finally-gone-to-dark-side.html3. I'm following on twitter as well--a very useful site indeed.4. I would use time traveling to augment my interest in history. What a fantastic historian I would be if I could go back and verify all the events and writings...

Oh i would love to enter!I am following.I follow on twitterOh and if i can travel back in time, it would definitely be the 50's!!! I would love to travel back to the 50's and wear bobby socks and poodle skirts hahahaha!!Following on Book Quotes.Thanks a tonnataliew2(at)gmail(dot)com

Time Travel? Ever read the book Summer House by Jude Deveroux? I would love to travel like that. In that book the women were able to go back to a point in there life when they chose a direction for their life. The time travel part came when they were able to go back to that choice, and take the other option (ex. the boyfriend they let go, a poor marriage choice, a decision that hurt someone etc...) When all was said and done and they had experienced the road not taken they were able to choose... keep the life they currently have and wipe out the memory of the time travel, keep current life and time travel memory... OR take the new life they expereinced and wipe out all current memories of their current life....Great. Now I want to read the book again... LOL

If I had the ability to time travel, I would love to see my high school crush. He sat in front of my all through Economics class senior year and I never had the courage to say more than a hello. He was dreamy though, I wonder if he still is?

Would love to win this! I've tried to get a copy interlibrary loan from the local library system and all 30+ copies are out and the wait list is like 13 people long! I'm a follower and read the updates in Google Reader!

*I'm already a follower. *I commented on the future plans entry*If I had the ability to Time Travel (and could of course control it) I would choose to go back to myself as a child and speak candidly about making the right choices. The right choices for myself as well as for others. I realize that the decisions I made in my life both right & wrong have led me to where I am today, but wow. Could you imagine telling yourself what places to make minor changes to benefit you future.

+1 New Follower..+1 Follow on Twitter (BurtonReview)+2 Time Traveling Question:If I could time travel then I would love to be a courtier at the court of Henry VIII, but certainly not high up there in the courts so that I would get my head chopped off. I would like to meet his second wife, Anne Boleyn and have a sitdown discussion with her heart to heart. (*"RUN FAST")Thanks for the oppmarieburton2004 at yahoo dot com

I've heard so many great things about this one. thanx 4 the heads up at bookblogs.ning. If I could go back in time I would like to go to England and see Queen Victoria crowned. There's something about Victorian England that just calls to me.

I'd love to win a copy of this book. The book and film previews that I've seen have tempted me enough to want to involve myself in this story. If I could go back in time, I would like to be an observer of my mother and father throughout their very brief courtship and marriage, which lead to a lifetime separation and a lot of unanswered questions.

Please enter me in your giveaway, I've heard so many good things about this one. I commented on the Fahrenheit 451 review as well.And if I were to be able to time travel back, I'd probably travel to the ancient Egyptian era, as I'm really fascinated by it. I'd love to experience the culture and to see how the pyramids were built.

I will agree with you on Niff's bluntness. I liked how she portrayed the realistic struggles that Clare and Henry go through, like any married couple. Too many movies and books just focus on the fluff, rainbows, and lollipops. I found the bluntness to be refreshingly honest.

Please enter me in your giveaway; I do have my own copy of this book, but would love to give this to my mother if I win. Oh yeah, and I am a follower, too. :)

@ Austen yes it is open internationally so if you are across the seas then feel free to enter. Thanks to every one for signing up far. This is the last day to enter the contest so make sure to tell your friends before time runs out.

Found this just in time! I've been meaning to read this, and I refuse to watch a movie (that's based on a book) unless I read it first.

I'm now a follower on here (+1)

and your blog of favorite quotes(+1).

By the way, can I recommend a book to find quotes in? I loved the enthusiastic writing in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita. Creepy, slightly disturbing, yes. But amazing I think. Example: "She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita…" I'll use that for my quote entry.

I'm also now following you on Twitter(+1). (sambgood)

I left a comment on your review of Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. (+1)

(+2)Time-Travel answer:

I'd go back to the time my parents first met (cheesy I know). Slightly before that, though, so I can finally know what REALLY happened. I want to know their whole story, not bits and pieces. From what I found out so far, it seems crazy, interesting, and delightfully secret.

Thanks for the heads-up about the comments-- I'll try to figure out what's wrong. Sorry I've been absent. I've been sort of taking a summer break.

BTW, if I had the ability to time travel I would go back to the time that I gained the ability and stop it. I don't recall ever reading a story where the ability to time travel turned out to be a good thing-- more likely that it's the conflict itself trying to be resolved. If there was no such thing as time, then there would be no such thing as stories. If there was no such thing as stories, then life would suck, and we would need to find a new hobby.

If I could time travel, I'd go back to all my funny and clumsy moments and have a good laugh (since I was probably too humiliated to do so at the time. LOL.) :p Or maybe I can slap myself during those times when I went ahead and did all sorts of "love"-induced stupid things. :)

I want to win this book so much! Please enter me! I commented on another post...the one where I congratulated your winner I think Robyn?

I just signed up to follow...how can that be? I have you on my blog list but didn't follow?

If I could time travel, I would want to go to NY about 1910 so I could watch my dad come from Greece through Ellis Island as a young boy and follow his interesting life that I am trying to write a book about. He died years ago and so it is hard as he isn't here and his last brother died last month so nobody left to ask questions of. But the stories of his growing up, shining shoes to help support his family of 11 kids when he was just 13, helping Lucky Luciano (I see you reading THE BOOK! The Godfather!) to place bets at the horse track--my dad would just take Lucky's money and go down and place the bet and then get a nice tip if he won. And finally to see how this scamp of a young man was able to get my classy, church going, close knit family mom to fall for him and get married. I just think that would be amazing to live in that time and see what their lives were really like now that they are both gone and I am left to wonder!

Well, that's my entries--I guess it counts for 4..and not to influence you, I promise, but I nominated you guys for the BBAW Best Collaborative Blog...you guys rock!

Hey folks... I am sorry if there was any misunderstanding, but the contest ended on Tuesday Aug 4th. The next post (winner winner chicken dinner) was announcing the winner of the book. Just a few days late! Sorry about that